Sentence examples for and litigation that from inspiring English sources

Nobody wants a repeat of the mess and litigation that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

At the same time, though, copyright holders have tried to impose rules on the rest of us — through threats and litigation — that were never intended to be part of copyright law.

And Saudi Arabia, one of the most powerful foreign interests here, spent about $1.5 million in 2009 on Washington firms, and it has a $600,000 annual contract with Hogan Lovells aimed partly at fighting legislation and litigation that would challenge OPEC's influence over oil prices.

He establishes a link between disputation and litigation that continues throughout the classical period.

His widely-praised 1993 book, Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People Through Delegation, published by Yale University Press, was the genesis for legislation in Congress and litigation that went to the Surpeme Court.

The extent to which malodor is an aesthetic issue versus a threat to health is a subject of scientific investigation and litigation that has important implications for environmental regulation, public health, and environmental justice (Thu 1998).

The consequences of inappropriate analyses can range from embarrassment and loss of funding through catastrophic failure of poorly designed structures under service loads, with the liabilities and litigations that inevitably follow.

"This settlement is being proposed solely because it is in the best interest of the city, and avoids costly and protracted litigation that would only make it more difficult for our city to heal and potentially cost taxpayers many millions more in damages".

Conventional wisdom held that law firms could weather economic downturns by relying on business lines like bankruptcy and civil litigation that tend to increase in bad times.

But he said the company's reorganization plan "has become mired in highly expensive and distracting litigation that threatens the entire enterprise.

Those negotiations, and the litigation that often goes with them, are now mostly concluded in the Vallejo case, and the city hopes that the formal restructuring plan it just submitted will let it emerge from bankruptcy by summer.